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agree that using the API is likely the nicer route. you can also apply for a quota increase, I recently applied for youtube API quota increase to 100,000 units and it was approved for my app (https://cmdcolin.github.io/ytshuffle/) I was concerned they wouldn't like that the app downloads so much data but it was approved without much question, they just wanted terms of service prominently displayed to end users

I always like this when the url is always copyable, but in our app, the state can get quite large. We started with base64 encoded gzip of json.stringified app state but just gets quite long. Arguably it could be reduced a little bit, but would still be hundreds-thousands of chars routinely, so we switched to using a little URL shortening service that we wrote on aws lambda+dynamodb

I remember my neighbors dad showing us this on their compaq pc. I can't remember exactly what year it was I would guess it was probably <2004. I think it had a cool 3d visualizer thing with lots of polys but not google earth

this is a random note since I know OP didn't mention RSI, but since you did, I will mention: gotta watch out for putting too much pressure on your elbows with armrests and such. I found this can cause trouble with your pinky finger (sometimes called ulnar tunnel, which is fairly different from carpal tunnel). a post I wrote https://cmdcolin.github.io/posts/2022-07-08-pinky

i've not yet started my ergonomic gadgets journey but just being aware of the elbow->hand connection has helped me

I am not the author of this tool but found it extremely useful. It has caught almost a 100 typos in our codebase in snake_cased and camelCased variable names, in prose in our docs, and it is programming-language agnostic! So awesome. Highly recommend. Easily set up as a github action in CI too

No Ghosts 4 years ago

this is a an important article. It's a bit hard to grok and requires some experience to understand but after you end up with a messy system doing too much ghosty stuff you yearn for stability

I think its more that eslint at its core does not support typescript and they want to run the eslint tool theyre developing over the eslint codebase. It's hard to argue with this but it doesnt seem like the greatest outcome

I think perhaps this (learngenomics.dev) resource is a little too shallow on some levels, but has interesting depth in odd places. I think there is a need to get users up to speed with things like the SAM format, which is very fundamental to 99% "dna sequencing" projects, but it's an odd format in some ways because it's quite low level, so trying to get people to understand how the basics of biology interact with it is worthwhile. I did my own attempt in this sometimes-updated blog post https://cmdcolin.github.io/posts/2022-02-06-sv-sam